When it comes to the United States and the Soviet Union, everyone knows that this was a sworn enemy, when the two countries played an arms race, and as a result, the Cold War ended, the Soviet economy was dragged down, and finally helplessly disintegrated. The United States became the big winner.
Many people may not know that there is a rich family that can successfully move between the Soviet Union and the United States and become the biggest winner. This giant is the legendary Koch family in the United States. In the American political arena, on the surface, these people are not real big guys, and invisible giants like the Koch family are real big guys.
The Koch family has always been the invisible big man behind American politics, their powerful money has been swaying American politics for many years, no one knows how much wealth their family really has, and they control Koch Industries, which is one of the world's largest unlisted companies, and controls at least hundreds of billions of assets in the United States.
Koch Industries is not listed and operates throughout the United States, including petroleum, energy, chemicals, wood, and more. On the wealth list, David Koch and Charles Koch have been at the top of the list for many years, and if you count the total assets of their brothers, they have actually surpassed Bill Gates for many years.
The point is that because the company is not listed, outsiders cannot really know their assets. The Koch brothers' career was inherited from their father, Fred Koch. Ferred Koch was actually a Dutchman who later immigrated to the United States. Ferred Koch is a chemist who once earned a degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1927, Fred koch successfully invented a new refining technology.
At that time, this technology of Fred Koch could greatly provide the efficiency of refining oil. However, in the United States, other companies thought that Fred koch threatened them, so they joined forces to block Fred Koch. Not only were they reluctant to buy Fredkoch's patents, but they drove away Fredkoch together.
After Fredkoch was sidelined, he ran to the Soviet Union. After arriving in the Soviet Union, Fredkoch gained Stalin's admiration. Fredkoch successfully helped Stalin build 15 modern oil refineries, which greatly improved Soviet industry. At the same time, Fred koch himself has accumulated amazing wealth.
With the money, Fred koch managed to bring back the United States. After Ferred Koch returned to the United States, he established Koch Industries, entered the fields of petroleum and energy, and did a good job. Ferredkoch died in 1967, and his four sons competed for the family property.
In the end, David Koch and Charles Koch won the other two brothers and seized all the family property. David Koch actually has a twin brother, but he eventually joins forces with Charles Koch, who is not a twin, to seize the family property together.
For years the Koch brothers have supported their favorite parties to the top, giving them a lot of money. Their aim is to get U.S. officials to monitor them less and pay less tax. Because their company was named one of the top ten polluting companies in the United States.
The Koch brothers also wanted to run for president on their own, but unfortunately they failed. After the failure, they turned to supporting the institutions and organizations they fancy. They set up three funds very early on, and these three secret funds have been supporting various organizations in the United States, of course, these organizations must be conducive to the Koch family business.
Koch Industries, controlled by the Koch brothers, controls a quarter of the U.S. LPG market, trades more than 700 million tons a year, and is the sixth-largest U.S. power company. In addition, Koch Industries is the world's largest supplier of bitumen. Their businesses span crude oil extraction, refining, trading, pipeline transportation, agriculture and livestock, financial services, road asphalt and other industries.
In 2005, Koch successfully surpassed Cargill to become the world's largest private company, and a year later Koch Industries released data with revenue of $106 billion, which has actually surpassed most of the World's top 500 companies. However, because they are not listed, outsiders do not know how much profit they have, which is where Koch Industries is strong.
David Koch had died of illness a few years earlier, and today Charles Koch alone manages a vast Koch industry. In fact, in today's world, the rich people who can be seen in the table mountain, such as Musk and Bezos and other people are not really rich, the real rich are people like the Koch brothers. These people make money not on stocks, but on monopolies, and they have long been involved in politics.